Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for June 24
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| June 24, 1521 |
Francisco Gordillo, sailing on orders of Lucas Vazques de Ayllon, lands somewhere in the vicinity of present-day southern South Carolina. He captures some 60 Indians at a place he calls Chicora. |
| June 24, 1856 |
The Toombs Bill, an attempt to bring a constitutional convention to Kansas amid growing involvement of pro-slavery and abolitionist forces is introduced into the Congress.
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Robert Toombs |
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Slavery in Georgia |
| June 24, 1882 |
President Chester Arthur confirms the sentence of Henry Flipper, and order his dishonorable discharge
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Henry O. Flipper From Slave to Officer
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| June 24, 1885 |
Woodrow Wilson marries Ellen Louise Axson.
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Woodrow Wilson |
| June 24, 1900 |
35 people die when a Southern Railways train plunged into a washout 1.5 miles north of McDonough, Georgia. |
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Henry County, Georgia |
| June 24, 1948 |
Stalin stops all railroad and truck traffic into the city of Berlin |
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General Lucius D. Clay |
| June 24, 1984 |
5 dead near Canton
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5 dead near Canton |
| June 24, 1988 |
Boards of Clark College and Atlanta University decide to consolidate the two colleges and create Clark Atlanta University
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| June 24, 2003 |
Lester Maddox, 87, a segregationist who governed Georgia as a moderate Democrat, died in an Atlanta hospice as a result of a fall.
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Lester Maddox |
| June 24, 2005 |
Police arrest Michael Natson, a military police office based at Fort Benning, for the murder of Dena Carter. |
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Ardena Carter |
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